μεθαιρέω · methaireō — LSJ
catch in turn
catch in turn, of a game at ball, [σφαῖραν] ἕτερος ῥίπτασκε ποτὶ νέφεα σκιόεντα ἰδνωθεὶς ὀπίσω· ὁ δʼ ἀπὸ χθονὸς ὑψόσʼ ἀερθεὶς ῥηϊδίως μεθέλεσκε, πάρος ποσὶν οὖδας ἱκέσθαι Od. 8.376.
The corpus record
μεθαιρέω
methaireo
catch in turn
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- μεταίρεις · metaireis Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (DIORISIS sentence 680)
- μεθέλεσκε · metheleske Odyssey 8.376
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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